• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Russian Best

Russian Life & People Digest

  • Home
  • Articles
  • Questions and Answers
    • History and Politics
    • Culture and Science
    • People and Language
    • Lifestyle and Attributes
    • Russian Sports
    • Food and Drinks
    • Traveling Russia
    • Economy and Geography
    • Russian Military
    • Books & Movies
Browse: Home / History and Politics

What are the titles of Russian royal family?

Question by Bella: Tittles of Russian royal families?
1- I know a princess is called a grand duchess, but do they still keep the tittle even when they’re the tsar’s sister, not daughter?
2- Would a grand duchess’s husband be called a grand duke or do they have another tittle?
3- What is the tittle of a tsar’s son who isn’t the crown prince (next in line for the throne)

romanovs photo

Photo Credit: The Library of Congress/Flickr
Answers and Views:

Answer by Rico

Grand Duchesses remain titled as such when their brother, uncle or cousin became the Tsar, same if the throne had gone to a female due to lack of male heirs under semi Salic law.

As with all men who marry into a royal of imperial house, they get no title. They would not be able to share their wifes imperial rank.

The younger brothers of the Tsarevich (equivalent of Crown Prince), are Grand Dukes.

Answer by Ichiban MSRT, PhD, Lulz
His/Her Imperial Soviet The Grand Duke/Duchess of Russia

Answer by C.G.
Titles in the Russian Royal/Imperial family
Tsar.
Tsaritsa is the term used for a Queen, though in English contexts this seems invariably to be altered to tsarina (since 1717, from Italian czarina, from German Zarin). In Imperial Russia, the official title was Empress). Tsaritsa (Empress) could be either the ruler herself or the wife (Empress consort) of the tsar. The title of tsaritsa is used in the same way in Bulgaria and Serbia.

Tsesarevich is the term for a male heir apparent, the full title was Heir Tsesarevich , informally abbreviated in Russia to The Heir, (capitalized).

Tsarevich was the term for the younger sons and grandsons of a Tsar or Tsaritsa prior to 1721. In older times the term was used in place of “Tsesarevich” . After 1721 a son who was not an heir was formally called Velikii Kniaz ,Grand Duke or Grand Prince. The latter title was also used for grandsons (through male lines).

Tsarevna was the term for a daughter and a granddaughter of a Tsar or Tsaritsa prior to 1721. After 1721, the official title was Velikaya Kniaginya , translated as Grand Duchess or Grand Princess.

See also Grand Duchess for more details on the Velikaya Kniaginya title.

Tsesarevna (Цесаревна) was the wife of the Tsesarevich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_of_the_Russian_sovereign#Full_style_of_Russian_Sovereigns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess

The princesses who were titled grand duchesses were able to keep their titles for life.

Men who marry into a royal family have to be bestowed their own titles by the monarch. They never assume titles and stylings of their wives.

Read all the answers in the comments.
What do you think?

See other posts in History and Politics

Reader Interactions

Comments ( 1 )

  1. Paul Felix Murphy says

    I have copied a picture of the signatures of Alexandra and the five children. Before the names of Alexandra, Olga, and Tatiana is a word that may be a title. with limited knowledge of Russian script, I cannot make out the initial Letter(s) of the word. But the word ends in __ira. What might the word be?

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Popular Posts

Pushkin's Tatiana writing a letter to Onegin

Onegin’s Tatiana Was Only Thirteen?

Russian shashlik

My Favorite Russian Food

Dacha – Home Away From Home

Subway Dog

Subway Dogs of Moscow

Cape Cod on the Rocks

What is a cocktail with vodka and cranberry juice called?

Categories

Recent Comments

  • Pat on What does Nazdrovia actually mean?
  • Ted on Where can i send free SMS messages to Russian mobiles?
  • PutinPow on What does Nazdrovia actually mean?
  • bigdogg on What does Nazdrovia actually mean?
  • HAMISH A McDONALD on What Russia would be like today if Nicholas II had not been executed?

Copyright RussianBest.com © 2025 · About · Privacy Policy · Disclaimer: RussianBest.com is an informational website, and its content does not constitute professional advice of any kind.